'Through thick and thin' definitions:
Definition of 'Through thick and thin'
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- Thick \Thick\, n.
- 1. The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest. [1913 Webster]
- In the thick of the dust and smoke. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.] --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
- Through the thick they heard one rudely rush. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- He through a little window cast his sight Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under Fiddle.
- Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and difficulties, both great and small. [1913 Webster]
- Through thick and thin she followed him. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
- He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a military frenzy. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]